Concerned about Kickstarter's plans to migrate its platform to blockchain technology, Spike Trotman, publisher of the indie graphic novel house Iron Circus Comics, is stepping away from Kickstarter to launch a new independent crowdfunding platform to fund a new volume of her Poorcraft frugal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Rana DiOrio's latest venture, Creative Mint, seeks to leverage the power of blockchain technology to “democratize and decentralize” rights transactions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
BISG organized a panel about blockchain and its application to book publishing that examined its potential and the reality of a much-hyped but barely understood technological innovation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
There was a core of optimism at the Book Industry Study Group’s annual meeting in New York, despite sluggish trade sales and challenges facing the business – from old problems roaring back, like returns and piracy, to that new mystery, blockchain technology. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Academic houses Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press have joined a pilot project on using blockchain technology for peer review, announced by publisher Springer Nature and start-up Katalysis last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is exhibiting at LBF for the first time and has launched a white paper which claims that the development of blockchain technology could revolutionise the book industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magazine publisher Dennis is leading a project to use blockchain technology to improve transparency within digital ad transactions. The post Dennis is trying to use blockchain to improve programmatic transparency appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Advertisers and publishers could get help from Bitcoin technology.The idea of using blockchain to handle digital ad transactions is starting to seep into the conversation among advertisers, digital publishers and ad tech vendors. Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin; it supports the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]